News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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Latest events . . .
SLSA events
Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body, Manchester: Call for papers and presentations
Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood, Reading
Workshop: Legal perspectives on climate reparations, University of Bristol: call for expressions of interest
Other events
Future of Family Law Conference, Manchester
Feminist Legal Pedagogies in Northern/Ireland, University of Galway
British Institute of International and Comparative Law: new schedule of short courses for 2025, online, hybrid and London
'Repugnant Transactions and Taboo Trades': Baron de Lancey Lecture 2025, Cambridge
International Experiences with Children in Conflict with the Law, Edinburgh
Journal of Environmental Law Workshop 2025: On 'Greenwashing', Bristol
SLS Seminar Series: Litigation against extractives, Cambridge
Doctoral Research Masterclasses in Law, IALS, London
No Future for Future Generations, Goldsmiths, University of London
HRLC Annual Human Rights Conference: Human rights under pressure, Nottingham
Sound, Law and Place, University of Westminster
2025
February
Not Just in Outer Space: A story of 'aliens' in nationality law
Date: 20 February 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professor Devyani Prabhat (University of Bristol)
See website for details.
Manchester Asian Law Group Lecture 2025 - Professor Ngoc Son Bui
Date: 20 February 2025
Venue: University of Manchester
See website for details.
Legal London Tour
Date: 21 February 2024
Venue: Royal Courts of Justice, London
Organised by Old Bailey Insight & Legal London. See website for details.
Law and LGBTQ+ Arts and Culture in Modern Britain
Date: 24 February 2025
Venue: University of York
Organised by Equality and Diversity Office, University of York. See website for details.
Book Launch: Keepers of the Common Good by D J Galligan
Date: 24 February 2025
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
See website for details.
The History of Misinformation
Date: 25 February 2025
Venue: British Academy, London
See website for details.
Webinar: Childhood and Disability
Date: 25 February 2025
Venue: online from QMUL Childhood, Law & Policy Network
See website for details.
Mycelium Law
Date: 25 February 2025
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
See website for details. This is an LHub (Law and Humanites Hub) event.
GW4 Network on Family, Regulation and Society Annual Lecture 2025
Date: 26 February 2025
Venue: University of Bristol Law School
Speaker: Professor Anne Barlow
Theme: W(h)ither Family Law?
See website for details.
How to Address Inequalities as Part of 'Good Growth', AcSS webinar
Date: 26 February 2025
Venue: online from the Academy of Social Sciences
See website for details and registration.
The Fabrication of Homeland Security: Tracing police entanglements across India and Israel/Palestine
Date: 27 February 2025
Venue: online Race and Justice Seminar Series event
Speaker: Dr Rhys Machold, University of Glasgow
See website for details.
The Future of Gender and Sexuality Data: Perils and possibilities
Date: 27 February 2025
Venue: Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Sharon Cowan
See website for details.
Feminist Legal Pedagogies in Northern/Ireland
Date: 28 February 2025
Venue: University of Galway
See announcement for details.
March
British Academy Screening: The Memory of Justice
Date: 1 March 2025
Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Speaker: Professor Philippe Sands, Professor of the Public Understanding of Law, University College London
See website for details.
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: Criminalising the Unspeakable: Rethinking the history of sodomy
Date: 4 March 2025
Venue: CSLS Manor Road Building
Speaker: Professor Alice Taylor, KCL
See announcement for details.
The BSLC Inaugural Annual Janine Sargoni Memorial Lecture
Date: 5 March 2025
Venue: Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol
Theme: Radical Lawyers? Rethinking the law and society canon
Speaker: Professor Linda Mulcahy
See website for details.
Next 100 Years: Celebration of female trailblazers in the legal profession
Date: 5 March 2025
Venue: DLA Piper, London
Guests: Dana Denis-Smith, Dr I Stephanie Boyce, Barbara Mils KC, Jon Hayes
See announcement for details.
Cultures of Knowledge and Emotion In Health Care Practices
Date: 5 March 2025
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
See announcement for details.
Cultures of Knowledge and Emotion in Health Care Practices
Date: 5 March 2025
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
See announcement for details.
HRLC Annual Human Rights Conference: Human rights under pressure
Date: 5 March 2025
Venue: Human Rights Law Centre, Nottingham
Keynote speaker: Baroness Shami Chakrabarti
See website website for details.
Minimum Wage: Tool of emancipation or tool of coercion? – Panel discussion
Date: 6 March 2025
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Law School, Sebastian Street, City St George's
See website for details.
Towards a Legal Theory of Prices: Mapping the conceptual terrain
Date: 6 March 2025
Venue: UCL Laws, London
Speaker: Dr Anna Chadwick
See website for details.
Muslim Women and Gender Equality
Date: 7 March 2025
Venue: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh
See website for details.
1984 - The year of Anti-Racism: Then and now
Date: 8 March 2025
Venue: The London Archives
See website for details.
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: Rituals of Law: Legal Cosmopolis in an Early Modern Indian Ocean Port
Date: 11 March 2025
Venue: CSLS Manor Road Building
Speaker: Dr Mahmood Kooria, University of Edinburgh
See announcement for details.
Can Law Tackle the Climate Crisis?
Date: 11 March 2025
Venue: Old Fire Station, Oxford
Speaker: Rebekah Hill, Good Law Project
See website for details.
UK Immigration Legislation and a Hierarchy of Modern Slavery Victimhood
Date: 12 March 2025
Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Hull
Speaker: Dr Marija Jovanovic
See website for details.
How to Hide a Genocide
Date: 12 March 2025
Venue: Edinburgh Law School
See website for details.
What is missing when defendants disown their actions?
Date: 13 March 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professor Bebhinn Donelly-Lazarov
See website for details.
Working with Former Combatants: Understanding violence, peace and memory
Date: 13 March 2025
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
See website for details.
Forensic Linguistics and the Law
Date: 14 March 2025
Venue: Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
Speakers: Dr Edina Harbinja (Aston Law School), Dr Lucia Busso (Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics) and Dr David Wright (Nottingham Trent University)
See website for details.
Re-orienting Punishment towards Forgiveness: The role of interpersonal concepts in legal reconstruction
Date: 18 March 2025
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
See website for details. This is an LHub (Law and Humanites Hub) event.
Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood
Date: 19 March 2025
Venue: University of Reading and hybrid
See announcement for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Women and Equality in Publishing: A study of leading UK law journals
Date: 19 March 2025
Venue: Edinburgh Law School
See website for details.
Doctoral Research Masterclasses in Law
Dates: 19 March, 30 April and 14 May 2025
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
See website for details. These Masterclasses are free to attend.
No Future for Future Generations
Date: 19 March 2025
Venue: Goldsmiths, University of London
Speaker: Dr Emily Jones, University of Newcastle
See website for details.
Family Law as Social Policy: Taking Family Problems Upstream
Date: 20 March 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professor Rob George,
Chair: Professor Mavis Maclean
See website for details.
Why Justice Matters: Personal stories from Lord David Wolfson
Date: 20 March 2025
Venue: central London location tbc
See website for details of this Support Through Court event.
Doing Criminal Justice with Integrity
Date: 20 March 2025
Venue: Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory, Edinburgh Law School
Speaker: Professor Paul Roberts, University of Nottingham
See website for details.
The Next 100 Years of Women in the Law
Date: 20 March 2025
Venue: CMS Manchester
See website for details.
'Repugnant Transactions and Taboo Trades': Baron de Lancey Lecture 2025
Date: 20 March 2025
Venue: Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Cambridge
Speaker: Professor Kimberly D Krawiec, University of Virginnia Law School.
See website for details.
Elaborating the Constitution through Institutional Pluralism
Date: 25 March 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professor Athanasios (Akis) Psygkas, Western University
See website for details.
International Experiences with Children in Conflict with the Law
Date: 28 March 2025
Venue: University of Edinburgh
Speaker: Professor Trevor Stack
See website for details.
Sound, Law and Place
Date: 31 March 2025
Venue: University of Westminster
See website for details of this Westminster Law & Theory Lab event.
April
British Academy: First annual SHAPE conference
Date: 2 April 2025
Venue: Carton House, London
Save the date: further details will be available in the new year.
Future of Family Law Conference
Date: 2 April 2025
Venue: 100 Barbirolli Square, Manchester
See website for details.
Symposium on Roger Cotterrell's Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies
Date: 3 April 2025
Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London
See website for details.
Workshop: Legal perspectives on climate reparations
Date: 4 April 2025
Venue: Lady Hale Moot Court Room, University of Bristol
See announcement and Call for EOIs for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
MI5: Official Secrets Exhibition
Dates: 5 April–28 September 2025
Venue: The National Archives, Kew
See website for details.
How Do New Legal Rights Emerge?
Date: 7 April 2025
Venue: Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham
Speakers: Dr Meghan Campbell and Dr William Mack, University of Birmingham
See website for details.
Parity of Esteem as a Constitutional Principle in NI and Beyond
Date: 9 April 2025
Venue: The Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast
See website for details.
SLS Seminar Series: Litigation against extractives
Date: 9 April 2025
Venue: Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
See website for details.
SLSA Annual Conference 2025
Dates: 15–17 April 2025
Venue: University of Liverpool
See website for details.
British Institute of International and Comparative Law: new schedule of short courses for 2025
Foundations of International Law – starts 25 April 2025
Climate Change Law – starts 29 April 2025
Public International Law in Practice – starts 23 September 2025
Climate Change Litigation – starts 24 September 2025
Artificial Intelligence Governance – starts 24 September 2025
International Cultural Heritage – starts 25 September 2025
Law of the Sea – starts 26 September 2025
Business and Human Rights – starts 6 October 2025
All thes courses are online. See website for details.
Sexual Consent and Legal Reform: Towards a Communicative Responsibility Approach
Date: 30 April 2025
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
See website for details.
May
Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference: Anatomy of a Crisis: call for abstracts
Dates: 8–9 May 2025
Venue: McGill Universeity, Montreal, Canada
See call for abstracts and poster for details. For all enquires contact:
A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making? Winning against the odds for human rights, equity, and indigenous peoples: call for abstracts
Dates: 8–9 May 2025
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
See announcement and invitation for details. Closing date for abstract submissions: 28 February 2025.
Journal of Environmental Law Workshop 2025: On 'Greenwashing'
Date: 9 May 2025
Venue: University of Bristol Law School
See website for details.
Slavery’s Long Goodbye: A Wilberforce Institute Lecture
Date: 14 May 2025
Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Kingston upon Hull
Speaker: Professor Chris Evans, University of Wales
See website for details.
Dysfunctional Governance: 'Crisis', 'scandal', 'tragedy', 'emergency'
Dates: 15–16 May 2025
Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff: call for abstracts
Submissions are invited for this interdisciplinary workshop. See announcement for details.
Law and Society Association Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop
Date: 21 May 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA
See website for details.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 22–25 May 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA
See meeting details. Registration is now open.
Criminal Mind Research Network launch event
Date: 23 May 2025
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
See announcement for details.
Socio-Legal Annual Lecture by Professor Martti Koskenniemi
Date: 28 May 2025
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
See website for details.
‘What’s Next for Feminism?’ LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory: call for papers
Dates: 29–30 May 2025
Venue: LSE, Houghton Street, London
See website for details. Call closes: 1 March 2025.
June
Conference on Judicial Activism and Resistance in Eastern Europe and Beyond
Dates: 5–6 June 2025
Venue: Institut d'études européennes, Université libre de Bruxelles
See website for details.
Law and the Critique of Political Economy: 60th Anniversary of Reading Capital
Date: 6–7 June 2025
Venue: Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
See website for details. Closing date: 13 April 2025.
WG Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care
Dates: 11–12 June 2025
Venue: IALS, Charles Clore House, Russell Square, London
See website and announcement for details.
Summer Academy for Feminist Legal Studies 2025: call for speakers
Dates: 13–15 June 2025
Venue: University of Hamburg, Germany
See announcement for details. If you are interested in participating in the Summer Academy as a speaker, please send a short email with details of your expertise or research area to
Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and the Law: A Conversation between Feminist Scholars in Postcolonial South Asia and the UK: call for abstracts
Dates: 16–17 June 2025
Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff University
See announcement for details. Call closes: 28 March 2025.
UK Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Health Conference: Opportunities, challenges and the vulnerabilities of health throughout the life course
Dates: 19–20 June 2025
Venue: University of Manchester
Speakers: Professor Amy T. Campbell, University of Illinois; Dr Nigel Stobbs, Queensland University of Technology; Dr John Stannard, Queen’s University Belfast
See announcement for details.
August
Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body: Call for papers and presentations
Date: 25 August 2025
Venue: University of Manchester
See website for details. Call closes: 3 March 2025. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
September
Responsible AI in Health Care: call for abstracts
Dates: 10–12 September 2025
Venue: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
See announcement for details. Closing date: 28 February 2025.
November
From Binary to Bench: Empowering equal opportunities and AI literacy in global legal education: call for papers
Date: 5 November 2025
Venue: University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, and online
See website of details. This is an SLS-funder symposium organised by Dr Melanie Stockton-Brown and Dr Basak Bak. Call closes: 7 March 2025.
2026
June
WG Hart Workshop 2026: call for proposals
Dates and venue: tbc
IALS is now seeking proposals to organise the 2026 WG Hart Workshop. The WG Hart Bequest provides a budget of approximately £7000 to use towards the running costs of the Workshop. In addition to this, the Institute covers the cost of venue hire, publicity and administrative support. The Workshop structure follows the pattern of a two-day workshop with plenary and parallel sessions, so as to permit participation by a wide range of scholars. The deadline for proposals is 28 February 2025. Further details can be found on the website.